Chapter 17: The Great Ning Shock

When the vassal king received the order to change the seal from the imperial court, unlike what Zhu Yunwen expected, only King Qing of Qingyang, King Min of Minzhou, King Su of Ganzhou, King Ning of Yunnan and King Jingjiang of Guilin agreed to change the title, and the rest would rather cut down the guards than change the seal. All in all, it is the bitter cold land of the frontier that wants to change the seal, and I think it will not be worse anyway, but the vassal kings in the interior are unwilling to change the seal, even the king of Jin, the king of Dai, the king of Yan, and the king of Zhou in the north are unwilling to change the seal.

Zhu Yunwen convened his ministers to discuss why the vassal kings did not agree to change the title, the frontier kings were easy to understand, but why the inland kings were unwilling? Everyone discussed for a long time, but there was no result. Finally, Xie Jin raised a question, if you want to change the title of a vassal king, what does the imperial court need to do? What does the vassal king need to do?

Gao Wei suddenly came to his senses, knelt down to Zhu Yunwen and said, "Your Majesty, the minister is not thoughtful and has caused trouble for the emperor." ”

"Huh?" Zhu Yunwen was a little puzzled, and hurriedly wanted to help Gao Wei up, but Gao Wei couldn't hold on and kowtowed frequently. Zhu Yunwen looked at the people around him suspiciously, and found that everyone had a feeling of sudden enlightenment.

Zhu Yunwen shook his head and returned to his position: "Do you all understand?" ”

Everyone nodded, and after suddenly becoming enlightened, they were like mourning.

In the end, Gao Wei said: "Your Majesty, this matter is a matter of ill-thought by the ministers, and if you change the title of vassal king, you must first build the palace, and the construction of the palace often takes several years, and you need to requisition a large number of people, money and grain, and the cost is huge, who will pay for this money?" Imperial Court or vassal king? If the two palaces are reversed, then the old prince needs to die at the same time, which is obviously impossible. ”

After speaking, Gao Wei knelt on the ground and kowtowed frequently, while everyone was silent.

Zhu Yunwen also understood, looking at the dejected appearance of the ministers around him, he quickly stood up, helped Gao Wei up, placed him in the seat, and then bowed down and said: "Gao Qing, please don't feel guilty, you just suggested, and in the end I decided to make the order, it was my lack of thought that led to this result." Then he patted Gao Wei on the shoulder and returned to his seat.

Gao Wei was moved to cry, Zhu Yunwen asked Liu Zhen to help Gao Wei to the back hall to rest, then clapped his palms, and said, "The matter has come to this, let's discuss it, how to reply to the vassal king?" Do you have a good idea? ”

This time, everyone was a little restrained and didn't dare to speak.

Xie Jin was young and vigorous in the end, and said: "Your Majesty, the sage has a cloud: 'The fault of a gentleman is also like the eclipse of the sun and the moon: everyone can see it; What's more, everyone looks up to it. 'The emperor may wish to issue an edict to withdraw the holy decree to appease the hearts of the vassal kings. ”

After everyone heard this, they secretly said in their hearts: This Xie Jin is really still the same, he dares to say anything, can he do this kind of thing of slapping his face casually? This kind of thing in history happened out of desperation, or just inconsequential little things, can it be the same this time?

Sure enough, Zhuo Jing immediately objected, and said: "Your Majesty, this matter must not be allowed, now that the emperor has not been on the throne for a long time, his prestige has not been established, and the government and the opposition are waiting and watching. In addition, this matter also involves the vassal king, if the emperor retreats, the vassal king will inevitably have to move an inch, and I am afraid that it will be out of control. ”

Liu Sanwu also said: "Your Majesty, what Lord Zhuo said is right, you must not give in, otherwise the consequences will be unpredictable." ”

Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng and others also opposed the concession.

Zhu Yunwen smiled and said, "In this way, I will not back down, but how to reply to your uncles?" ”

Qi Tai thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, why don't we move some of the vassal kings, for example, King Su once asked for internal relocation, you might as well send an order from the imperial court to move it from Ganzhou to Lanzhou, and King Min is near Lanzhou, you might as well move it to Huguang, so that the heart of the vassal king can be appeased." ”

Zhuo Jing also said: "Another example is that the King of Liao can also move to the mainland, Liaodong is located in a remote area, and the people are scarce, presumably the King of Liao is also willing." ”

Everyone opened their minds and spoke one after another, and there was a tendency to wipe out all the kings and move them all to the interior.

Xie Jin said: "Such a migration costs a lot of money, can the imperial court afford it?" ”

Wang Du said with a smile: "Great Squire, this matter is easy, it is not a day's work to move the kings, for now, we only need to reply to the kings first, and then start construction in the local area." As for the future, I'll talk about that later. ”

Everyone was silent for a while, and they all said yes.

Zhu Yunwen glanced at everyone, and finally understood how the policy of later generations thundered loudly and beat small, and finally fell silent, but there was indeed no better solution to this matter. In the end, Zhu Yunwen nodded and agreed, so he made a plan according to this idea, and let several frontier princes such as King Su, King Min and others move inward, and other vassal kings also designed a plan for them to choose from. In this way, this plan is not the internal migration of the prince's son, but the internal migration of the prince. Gao Wei's plan smoothly transitioned to Zhuo Jing's plan.

When this plan is finally made, the existing eighteen vassal kings who have already become vassals can smoothly transition, and some palaces can be reused, so that there are not many new palaces.

A few days later, the imperial court sent envoys to discuss with the vassal kings in various places, and thus began to quarrel about the relocation of the feudal domain......

But there are also some achievements, such as the change of King Su to Lanzhou, the change of King Min to Huguang Wugang, and the relocation of King Ning's family from Daning to Yunnan to reunite with King Ning.

On August 13, Lian Zining returned to Beijing and returned to visit King Jin and King Yan, saying that the two were seriously ill and should be comforted. Wang Bi thought that he could defend the city alone and did not need to be garrisoned by the king of Zhou, and the king of Zhou was willing to work hard to continue to guard the border.

On August 17, Geng Xuan transferred 30,000 troops to Guangning, under the command of Guo Ying.

On August 27, Guangning and Beiping urgently reported to the Beijing Division, and the Marquis of Dingyuan, Wang Bi, raised troops to rebel, elected the King of Zhou as the main body, and passed on the Northern Xinjiang and Beijing Division, asking the emperor to rehabilitate Lan Yu and others, in order to comfort the hearts of loyal ministers, and call for meritorious service to act together.

On August 30, Feng Sheng, the Duke of Song, committed suicide in the palace.

On September 10, Wang Bi raised an army to attack Quang Ninh, which was repulsed. On the same day, Kaiping attacked Kaiping, the Kaiping army broke and fled into the pass, and Wang Bi's army chased to Xifengkou and returned without restraint.

The government and the opposition were shocked.